Isaac BabalNo iron can stab the heart with such force as a fullstop put just at the right place.

Lauren BacallI think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.​Johann Sebastian BachThere's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

Inge BachmannIf we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.

Francis BaconAge will not be defied.

Riches are for spending.

To choose time is to save time

All colors will agree in the dark.

God Almighty first planted a garden.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

I would live to study, and not study to live.

​All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

​Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

It is a secret, both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things at once.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but ocean.

If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Joan BaezAction is the antidote to despair.

The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.

Walter BagehotWe must not let daylight in upon the magic.

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

The Queen must sign her own death-warrant if the two houses unanimously send it up to her.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

Neta BahcallThe universe is underweight.

Pearl BaileyYou never find yourself until you face the truth.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Josephine BakerTo realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

Michael BakuninThe urge for destruction is indeed a creative urge.

Alec Baldwin My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.

James BaldwinNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Money was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Stanley BaldwinThere are three classes which need sanctuary more than others - birds, wild flowers and prime Miinisters.

Arthur James Balfour​The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.

Lucille BallKnowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

BalzacLove is the poetry of the senses.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism ruled over by dwarfs.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

I am not deep, but I am very wide, and it takes time to walk around me.

It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Nothing fortifies a friendship more than a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

​Hatred is a tonic, i tmakes one live, it inspires vengenace; but pity kills, it makes one's weakness weaker.

We exaggerate both misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Saul BellowEverybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Jean-Paul BelmondoCharm is the ability to make others forget that you look as you do.

Robert BenchleyThe free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Pope Benedict XVIForgiveness does not replace justice.

David Ben-GurionCourage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Sir William Gurney BenhamThe sin is not in the sinning, but in the being found out.

Walter BenjaminGifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

Jeremy BenthamEvery law is an infraction of liberty.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

The sad truth is: it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Chris BergForeign policy is domestic politics with translators.

The problem with global warming isn't the warming per se, it's the consequences of warming.

Ingrid BergmanI hope I never get so old to become religious.

Happiness is good health and bad memory.

A kiss is a lovely trick of nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Irving BerlinLife is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

Hector BerliozTime is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Ben Bernanke (Chairman of US Federal Reserve)Too big to fail is one of the biggest problems we face in this country, and we must take action to eliminate too big to fail.

Yogi BerraYou can see a lot by observing.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

It's rough to make predictions, especially about the future.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up some place else.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Cardinal Tarcisio BertoneThe church is opposed to cloning but might change its attitude if Sophia Loren could be cloned.

Joseph BeuysArt is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

Aneurin BevanFreedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Jeff BezosYou have to be willing to be misunderstood if you are going to innovate.

Shobo BhattacharyaIn science you cannot be second, because the first person at the frontier is the frontier.

George BidaultThe weak have one weapon: the mistakes of those who think they are strong.

Ambrose BierceRevolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Religion is the daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to ignorance the Unknwoable.

Steven BikoThe power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

Otto on BismarckPolitics is not an exact science.

Politics is the art of the possible.

Let's afford the luxury to have an own opinion.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

A journalist is someone who has mistaken his calling.

A person who does not like nature disappoints me. I almost distrust him.

They never lie more than before the election, during the war and after the hunt.

The less people know how sausages and laws are made the better they can sleep.

After you have survived an enemy of equal standing you discovers that something is missing.

I regard even a victorious war as an evil, which diplomacy must make all effort to spare the people.

Don't lets make the mistake of doubting sense or goodwill of everyone who is of a different opinion.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

The great questions of one's time will not be solved by speeches and majority decisions, but by iron and blood.

Lawrence BlairWhen a myth is shared by a large number of people, it becomes reality. ('Rhytms of Vision')

Tony BlairI can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.

William BlakeExhuberance is beauty.

Heaven is in a grain of sand.

One thought fills immensity.

Joys impregnate, Sorrows bring forth.

Expect poison from the standing water.

The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

Excess of sorrow laughs, Excess of joy weeps.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

If the fool would persist in her folly she would become wise.

Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius.

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curs on the fairest of joys.

Ernst BlochWe have to learn how to hope.

Time is a clock without figures.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

Time exists only through action, and is where action is.

Giovanni BoccacioWhile farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

Maxwell BodenheimFor me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Friedrich Martin von BodenstedtNo lovers can pet forever.

​With the first sun all the stars disappear.

Flowers and weeds grow from the same soil.

He doesn't deserve wine who drinks it like water.

Zeros make a large fortune as long as they follow the One.

Intelligent talk is often difficult - intelligent silence even more so.

The wise man is rarely clever - and the clever one not always wise.

Ludwig BörneGovernments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.

Niels BohrWho isn't shocked by quantum theory hasn't understood it.

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.

(referring to Quantum Mechanics)

Erma BombeckIf you can laugh at it, you can live with it.

Bono​The less you know the more you believe.

Edward de BonoWithout creativity there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same pattern.

Daniel BoorstinThe hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

Celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his name or trademark.

Clare Booth LuceNo good deed goes unpunished.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Victor BorgeLaughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Jorge Luis BorgesTime is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Alain de BottonThe genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.

Religions are choreographers of spiritual, or psychological moments.

Ezra BowenIf you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Ray BradburyI don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

James BradleyThere is no inevitability about history, only contingencies, probabilities and chance.

(reviewing the book ‘Resistance')

Louis D. BrandeisBehind every argument is someone's ignorance.

The right to be alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.

Crime is contagious. If the government becomes the law breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law onto himself.

Marlon BrandoActing is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

Willie BrandtAs long as hunger exists, peace cannot prevail.

Richard BransonIf you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.

Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.

Science has no moral dimension. It is like a knife. You can give it to a surgeon or a murderer: each will handle it differently.

Berthold BrechtThe fate of man is man.

War always finds a way.

Right is its own defense.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Love is the wish to give, not to receive.

Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

It's never too late for those whose time has come.

You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

A person is really dead only when nobody thinks of him anymore.

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

Clemens von BrentanoOnly love knows the secret to give to others and become richer oneself.

André BrétonIf I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Jean-Anthelme Brillat-SavarinTell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

Benjamin BrittenIt is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.

David BrooksEmotion is the foundation of reason. (‘New Scientist’ 19.3.2011)

Mel BrooksTragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall down an open sewer and die.

Les BrownIt's important to me that money not be important to me.

William D. BrownFailure is an event, never a person.

Elizabeth Barrett BrowningA woman is always younger than a man at equal years.

Robert BrowningA man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?

Lenny BruceSatire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

William Jennings BryanFreedom of speech does not give a person the right to yell 'fire' in a crowded theatre.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for; but rather something to be achieved.

Kobe Bryant The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once...

Bill BrysonFrom an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.

Martin BuberThe world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

Art BuchwaldThe best things in life aren't things.

Pearl S.BuckLove comes out of heaven unasked and unsought.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

I am so absorbed in the wonder of Earth and life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Jimmy BuffetI'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

Warren BuffettA rising tide lifts all boats.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a hair cut.

Never invest in a business you don't understand.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who is swimming naked.

Edward George Bulwer-LyttonThe pen is mightier than the sword.

Luther BurbankFlowers are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

Edmund Burke (Irish statesman and philosopher)All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

James Lee BurkeAll Empires have their dustbins. ("Feast Day of Fools")

The dead don't let go of the world. That's why we put big stones on their graves. To hold them down.

One or two seemingly insignificant choices could open the door to a kingdom or sweep a man's destinyinto a dustbin. (last three from 'House of the Rising Sun')

Forbes BurnhamConsensus is something you have if you cannot have agreement.

George BurnsYou've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family ... in another city.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

If you live to the age of a hundred, you've got it made. Because very few people die past the age of a hundred.

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

John BurroughsI go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

Leo BuscagliaWorry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

What you are is God's gift to you. What you become is your gift to God.

Wilhelm Busch Stupidity is also a natural gift.

The good is the bad which we don't do.

Every wish, once fulfilled, brings forth new ones.

Tolerance is good - but not towards the intolerant.

Abstinence is the pleasure of things we can't have.

The sum of our lives are the hours when we were in love.

Even the smallest thing has its roots in infinity. It can never be fully understood.

George W.BushIt is human choices that move events.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for power equal to your tasks.

Samuel Butler Life is one long process of getting tired.

Faith is a kind of betting, or speculation.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

In law nothing is certain but the expense.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

A jail is not a geographical place. A jail is a condition.

The gods are those who either have money or do not want it.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then neither must death.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo, not for a man.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

To do great work, a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

The one serious conviction thyat a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

To himself everyone is immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

I reckon being ill is one of the great pleasures in life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture, or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

If God wants us to do things, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.

Andrew Lee ButtersTalking with one's adversaries is the burden of peacemaking.

Larry ButtroseWe are miraculously conscious clumps of recycled atoms.

David Byrne If this is paradise I wish I had a lawnmower.

James F.ByrnesToo many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

Lord ByronFriendship is Love without his wings.

The "good old times" -- all times when old are good.

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

The lapse of ages changes all things -- time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and everything "about, around, and underneath" man, except man himself.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -- and in my esteem age is not estimable._________________________________________________________________________________________________________________